Polly Mitchell-Guthrie

Chair, Analytics Certification BoardINFORMS2011 – Present (4 years)Baltimore, Maryland AreaI was a member of the chartering Analytics Certification Task Force that oversaw the launch of the Certified Analytics Professional program and am continuing as a member of this new and independent governing body. Served as Vice Chair initially and now serve as Chair.Senior Manager, Customer Liaison GroupSAS2008 – Present (7 years)Advanced Analytics R&DLead strategy and customer outreach team, with special focus areas including machine learning, university outreach, and econometrics, by facilitating customer engagement around technical topics. Our group provides product management and marketing, blog ownership, competitive analysis, market research, and promotion of R&D Division that develops software for statistics, econometrics, forecasting, operations research and optimization, machine learning, and data mining.